Friday, May 3, 2024

Friday Writings #125: Favorite Words

 


Hello, Word Artists and Admirers! I recently finished re-reading Wee Free Men. While there are many fun and wonderfully memorable bits in that book, this time around I took special delight in Tiffany Aching's little quirks, like her love of the word "susurrus". When I was younger, my favorite word was "flamboyant" and I remember loving to look at things to decide if they were truly flamboyant or not. (Admittedly my standards were low. As I recall, plain red umbrellas qualified, just so I could have the chance to use the word).

It's not just me and Tiffany. A lot of people have favorite words.

So for this week's optional prompt, I shall ask you to think of one of your favorite words and use that as inspiration for a poetry or prose piece. Please also indicate somewhere in your post which word you chose to work with. As always, I'm open to fiction and non-fiction. Just please keep your words to 369 or fewer, and one entry per person.

Next week, Rosemary will ask us to write a poem or story (or a few) in only 160 characters including title and spaces. (If you choose to write more than one, please put them all in one post and make sure that collectively they don't exceed our 369 word limit.)
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Friday, April 26, 2024

Friday Writings #124: Word List

Greetings, poets and storytellers. I hope your is day as lovely as you need it to be. And if you aren’t, then I wish your troubles don’t last too long. And if the difficulties linger, then may you and your muse turn the experience into something glorious.

Speaking of glorious, for today’s optional prompt, I invite you to write poetry or prose which includes 3 (or all) of the following words: consume, heartless, inflamed, peculiar, teeth.

Required: Add the direct link to your response to Mister Linky. One post per participant, please, 369 words maximum (excluding title), for prose and for poetry.

Optional: You may share old or new pieces of poetry or prose, and you may write to the prompt or to a topic of your choosing.

Requested (not compulsory but strongly recommended): Visit other poets and storytellers. Read their contributions. Comment on their glorious words.

for next week, our awesome Rommy will be asking us to write about (or use) one of our favorite words.